Need advice on selected text

[eonflux]

Hello,

I would like to build the following script to ease my work: while on a webpage, I want to be able to select a fix amount of text (500 chars) from that webpage. I would click on the position in text where I want my selection to start and the selection would autoitmagicaly extend up to 500 chars from that point.

I've read the manual but I still haven't found a way to manipulate the length of the selection.

At the moment I use a "workaround", selecting the text into the clipboard and counting the length of the string with (snip)

Send("^c")
Sleep(250)
$bak = ClipGet()
$len = StringLen(String($bak))

and using a tooltip to give me some hints on the screen.

Anybody can help me get closer to my original need? Thank you very much.

[Zedna]

For such reding text pieces from webpage would be better to use IE UDF.

Look into AutoIt helpfile at User Defined Function Reference --> IE Management

Probably: _IEBodyReadText()

Edited September 18, 2007 by Zedna

[eonflux]

For such reding text pieces from webpage would be better to use IE UDF.

Look into AutoIt helpfile at User Defined Function Reference --> IE Management

Probably: _IEBodyReadText()

Thank you for the answer but this doesn't fit my need

[JBeef]

what you ask sound insane.

that why Zedna give sanity.

why you need text of mouse selection, crazy? ~Jap

[eonflux]

what you ask sound insane.

that why Zedna give sanity.

why you need text of mouse selection, crazy? ~Jap

Thanks for the constructive comment. Cheers mate!